Re: 8+3-filesystem support

From:

Mark Wielaard

Subject:

Re: 8+3-filesystem support

Date:

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:37:11 +0200

Hi,
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:42, Dr. Torsten Rupp wrote:
> My request: If you make some modifications like ON_WINDOWS or isWin32
> for the filesystem code, please take into account that:
>
> 1) 8+3-filesystems are _not_ limited to Windows-systems. Thus it would
> be better to name it fileSystem8_3 or something like that.
>
> 2) To decide if a filesystem is limited to 8+3-naming it would imho be
> nicer not to check if the separator character is "\" (because this fail
> on some systems which uses a 8+3-filesystem, but the more convenient "/"
> as a separator). Instead some system property would imho be better.
Agreed. Could you supply a patch that cleans up the current code to
separate the 8.3 thing and the file separator thing to explicitly
mention something like fileSystem8_3 and introduces a system property
that the runtime should set when such a file system is set?
Thanks,
Mark